Chapter 78, 40 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Whereof do they question one another ?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عم يتساءلون
About what are they asking one another?
(It is) of the awful tidings,
عن النبإ العظيم
About the great news -
Concerning which they are in disagreement.
الذي هم فيه مختلفون
That over which they are in disagreement.
Nay, but they will come to know!
كلا سيعلمون
No! They are going to know.
Nay, again, but they will come to know!
ثم كلا سيعلمون
Then, no! They are going to know.
Have We not made the earth an expanse,
ألم نجعل الأرض مهادا
Have We not made the earth a resting place?
And the high hills bulwarks ?
والجبال أوتادا
And the mountains as stakes?
And We have created you in pairs,
وخلقناكم أزواجا
And We created you in pairs
And have appointed your sleep for repose,
وجعلنا نومكم سباتا
And made your sleep [a means for] rest
And have appointed the night as a cloak,
وجعلنا الليل لباسا
And made the night as clothing
And have appointed the day for livelihood.
وجعلنا النهار معاشا
And made the day for livelihood
And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
وبنينا فوقكم سبعا شدادا
And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]
And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
وجعلنا سراجا وهاجا
And made [therein] a burning lamp
And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
وأنزلنا من المعصرات ماء ثجاجا
And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water
Thereby to produce grain and plant,
لنخرج به حبا ونباتا
That We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation
And gardens of thick foliage.
وجنات ألفافا
And gardens of entwined growth.
Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
إن يوم الفصل كان ميقاتا
Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time -
A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
يوم ينفخ في الصور فتأتون أفواجا
The Day the Horn is blown and you will come forth in multitudes
And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
وفتحت السماء فكانت أبوابا
And the heaven is opened and will become gateways
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
وسيرت الجبال فكانت سرابا
And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage.
Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
إن جهنم كانت مرصادا
Indeed, Hell has been lying in wait
A home for the rebellious.
للطاغين مآبا
For the transgressors, a place of return,
They will abide therein for ages.
لابثين فيها أحقابا
In which they will remain for ages [unending].
Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
لا يذوقون فيها بردا ولا شرابا
They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
إلا حميما وغساقا
Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -
Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
جزاء وفاقا
An appropriate recompense.
For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
إنهم كانوا لا يرجون حسابا
Indeed, they were not expecting an account
They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
وكذبوا بآياتنا كذابا
And denied Our verses with [emphatic] denial.
Everything have We recorded in a Book.
وكل شيء أحصيناه كتابا
But all things We have enumerated in writing.
So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
فذوقوا فلن نزيدكم إلا عذابا
"So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."
Lo! for the duteous is achievement -
إن للمتقين مفازا
Indeed, for the righteous is attainment -
Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
حدائق وأعنابا
Gardens and grapevines
And maidens for companions,
وكواعب أترابا
And full - breasted [companions] of equal age
And a full cup.
وكأسا دهاقا
And a full cup.
There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
لا يسمعون فيها لغوا ولا كذابا
No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood -
Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
جزاء من ربك عطاء حسابا
[As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account,
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
رب السماوات والأرض وما بينهما الرحمن ۖ لا يملكون منه خطابا
[From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech.
On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
يوم يقوم الروح والملائكة صفا ۖ لا يتكلمون إلا من أذن له الرحمن وقال صوابا
The Day that the Spirit and the angels will stand in rows, they will not speak except for one whom the Most Merciful permits, and he will say what is correct.
That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
ذلك اليوم الحق ۖ فمن شاء اتخذ إلى ربه مآبا
That is the True Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return.
Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the will cry: "Would that I were dust!"
إنا أنذرناكم عذابا قريبا يوم ينظر المرء ما قدمت يداه ويقول الكافر يا ليتني كنت ترابا
Indeed, We have warned you of a near punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth and the will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"